Zelenskyy on new shelling: How could a residential building threaten nuclear-armed Russia?
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that on Tuesday evening, the number of children who have died at the hands of Russian occupying forces since 24 February had reached 52.
Source: President Zelenskyy's statement
Verbatim: "Today, when I was going to speak before the UK Parliament, this awful number was 50. That's 50 murdered Ukrainian children in 13 days of war. And in just an hour, it reached 52, 52 little kids".
"In the evening, [Russian forces] launched a missile strike at Korbutivka in the Zhytomyr region and destroyed a residential building. How could a common residential building threaten Russia? What are the geopolitical interests for a nuclear power?"
Details: The president noted that on Tuesday, a humanitarian corridor was able to be organised from Sumy to Poltava, thanks to which hundreds of people were saved, and humanitarian aid was delivered.
"But this is only a fraction of what needs to be done, what our people, blocked off Ukrainians, expect.
We are ready. Our [humanitarian] loads are ready. Our transportation is ready, but the people aren't ready. [Russian forces] are firing on evacuation routes and blocking the delivery of needed food and medications for people. What do they want? That Ukrainians take all of this from the hands of the occupiers? It's simply torture; conscious, systemic and organised by their government, which is foreign to us and cruel to everyone, including its own citizens," Zelenskyy said.
The president thanked the town of Oleshky in the Kherson region, Bredyansky and Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhya region and all cities where Ukrainians are protesting against Russian occupying forces.
He assured that humanitarian aid would get to blocked cities anyway they could, no matter how many times bullets stop it and that humanitarian corridors would still work.
"Only time is keeping you from freedom. Only a short time," the president stated.
Background: On the evening of 8 March, invading Russian forces bombed a residential building and the Izovat factory in Zhytomyr.
Russian occupying forces also continued to bomb Malyn in the Zhytomyr region, resulting in the death of five civilians, including two one-year-olds.
